Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-11
WORSE AND WORSE.
The Loss Of Life by the Earth.
quake Now Estimated at
Two Thousand.
A Church Filled with Refugees De.
s%trOyed, with Three Hun.
dred Lives.

The effects of the earthquake In Italy
and France prove to have been far moro
serious than ut first was thought, says a
cable dispatch from Rome. The loss Of
life and destruction Of property is learned
to have been terrible. The number of
deaths reported to the present time is about
two thousand. The most startling news
comes from the Genoese iviera. Over
fifteen hundred people were killed in that
district. At the village of Baiardo, situated
at the top of q hill, o number of the
inhabitants took refuge in a church when
the shocks were first felt. A subsequent
and greater shock demolished the church,
and 300 of the people who were in it were
killed. The shocks were felt at Parma,
Turin, and Cosenza. Undulations of the
earth were noticed at Catauia in Sicily at
the foot Of Mount Etna.
The earthquake was strongly felt at sea.
Off Genoa it woke sailors from their sleep.
At Turin a portion Of the ceiling of Santa
Teresa Church fell upon the worshipers,
but none were killed. In many streets the
traffic was stopped, as houses were rem
dered liable to fall. At Castellaro q church
collapsed, killing many persons. The
transport Roma has left Genoa to take on
board five hundred prisoners confined in
the Oneglia prison. which is expected to
collapse. Parties of soldiers have been
sent to the villages visited by the earth
quake to assist in burying the dead.
1t is reported that at Russana, q village
of 500 inhabitants, successive shocks lew
eled nearly every house. One-third of the
people are said TO be buried in the ruins,
and there is no hope of rescuing them.
Not one of the LOG communes in the popu.
lous province of Porto Maurizio escaped
injury. The villages built on terraces on the
sides of hills are almost all destroyed. The
distress is great everywhere. At Nice sixty
houses are totteling and ready to fall
from the shocks inflicted. Many others
are much damaged, and in most residences
more or less of the furnishings are dam
aged. The total number of people injured
jured and one killed at Mentone. Two
hundred and fifty houses there were rem
dered uninhabitable. Several fires occur
red, but were speedily extinguished.
Military guards are on duty to
prevent pillaging of the wrecked
houses. A bread famine is expected owing
to the destru ton of the ovens of the bak-
ers. Some wells around Nice are dried up,
while others increased in volume. A jet
of hot water burst from the bed of the
Paillon River, throwing up a mass of shin
gle.
A dispatch from Nice says: "Fugitives
are fleeing n every direction. The people
are afraid TO re-enter their houses and
hotels, and last even ne the heights back Of
the city were crowded with refugees.
Two thousand English, American,
and Russian visitors were clmped out dur
ing the night on the elevated ground. Six
thousand persons have left the city md
started for Paris. The son of Mr.. Albert
N. Hathaway, the Amer can Consul at
Nice, was seriously injured. There
have been no further disturbances
at Monte Carlo. The place is filled
with thousands of refugees from
Cannes, Nice, Mentone, and San Reno.
1t is difficult to find shelter for the great
number of people, and many OF them have
been compelled to camp out"
Oscillations of the earth from north to
south were felt throughout Switzerland.
quite severely in the central and southern
portions. No loss of life is reported, but
much damage was done to property.